Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — Page 7

The Wasp.

"For centuries,” says a scientiflo writer, “the mud wasp has built its cells of soft mud: in the bottom of these cells the female lays itß minute egg, building its mud- home just the size that the young will be when grown. Before closing its mud-walled cell the wasp catches a suitable sized spider, Injects into its body a fluid that causes It to remain torpid through the winter, until with the warmth of returning spring the young wasp grows, consuming the spider for food, thus gaining strength to break the mud walls ana emerge into the outer world a fullwinged insect. And yet no mud wasp from the beginning has ever seen its young.”

A Saffron-colored Index

Of the condition of a billons stomach and sluggish liver 1b the human countenance. Not only the skin, but the eyeballs, are tinged with the yellow hue when the bile gets Into the blood. Besides this, sick headaches ensue, the tongue becomes furred, pains are felt in the liver and through the right shoulder blade, and dizziness is experienced upon rising from a sitting or recumbent posture by the bilious invalid. For these and other Indications of biliousness, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters Is a sovereign remedy. It Is also efficacious In chills and fever, dumb ague, ague cake, Inactivity of the kidneys and bladder, rheumatism and nervousness. It stimulates, restores digestion and sleep, and tends greatly to mitigate the infirmities of age.

A Bad Break.

A New Yorker had the bad luck to sprain his ankle. He managed to get to his office, where there was a telephone. Hobbling up to it he called up his family doctor, whose office is in Harlem. “I have sprained my leg; what shall I do for it?” “Where have you injured your leg?” asked the doctor. “On the corner of Chambers street and Broadway.” That made it easier to prescribe, of course. CONDUCTOR E. D. LOOMIS, Detroit, Mich., says: “The effect of Hall's Catarrh Cure is wonderful." Write him about It. Sold by Druggists, 75c. The rate of pulsation is 120 per minute in infancy, 80 in manhood, and 60 in old age.

“August Flower” I have been troubled with dyspepsia, but after a fair trial of August Flower, am freed from the vexatious trouble —J. B. Young, Daughters College, Harrodsburg, Ky. I had headache one year steady. One bottle of August Flower cured me. It was positively worth one hundred dollars tome—J. W. Smith, P.M. and Gen. Merchant, Townsend, Out. I have used it myself for constipation and dyspepsia and it cured me, It is the best seller I ever handled —C. Rugh, Druggist,%lechanicsburg, Pa. <S) Kickapoo : INDIAN • * sacwaS The greatest Liver, 2 IKttat hsSHß Stomach, Blood and Z KKiPfgHgn Kidney Remedy. Z Made of Roots, Z BOTsfwSnr Barks and Herbs, Z ® and is Absolutely J S AU° Mineral 5 Z sy ' ' l\ or otherZ S Stv 1 \ Harmful In- 5 ! J VMM l/reredlents. Z •/ kJlw D JIM Us Druggists, SIJ • Dog, age iobyr S: Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co., 2 Heafy k Bigelow, Agents, New Haven, Ct. J The Greatest Medical Discovery of the Age. KENNEDY’S MEDICAL DISCOVERY, DONALD KENNEDY, OF ROXBURY, MASS., Has discovered in one of our common pasture weeds a remedy that cures every kind of Humor, from the worst Scrofula down to a common Pimple. He has tried it in over eleven hundred cases, and never failed except in two cases (both thunder humor). He has now in his possession over two hundred certificates of its value, all within twenty miles of Boston. A benefit is always experienced from the first bottle, and a perfect cure is warranted when the right quantity is taken. When the lungs are affected it causes shooting pains, like needles passing through them; the same with the Liver or Bowels. This is caused by the ducts being stopped, and always disappears in a week after taking it. if the stomach is foul or bilious it will cause squeamish feelings at first No change of diet ever necessary. Eat the best you can get, and enough of it. Dose, one tablespoonful in water at bedtime. Read the Label. Send for Book.

wSa Cost WORLD I SUCKER The FISH BRAND SLICKER ts warranted w»t*rprooLendwfflkMeyoadrytnthohinleetetorm. The new POMMEL SLICKER Is a perfect rid In* coat, and corers the entire saddle. Beware of Imitations. Don't buy a ooat If the “ Fish Brand" Is not OB it. Illoitrated Cataloirue free. A. J. TOWER, Boston, Mass. sio A Day Free I Enclose in a letter containing your full name and address, the outside wrapper of a bottle of Smith’s Bile Beans (either size). If your letter is the first one opened in the first morning mail of any day except Sunday $5 will be sent you at once. If the 2d, 3d, 4th, sth or 6th, sl. Ask for the SMALL size. Full list mailed to all I*ho send postage for it (2 cts.). Address J, p\ Smith & Co. No. 255 Greenwich St., New York. “ Not a gripe f in a barrel of them” U/A NTrn MEN to TRAVEL. We pay SBO JJ■! ww to »100 a month & expenses. STONE a WELLINGTON, MADISON. WIS. I Consumptives and people K who hare weak lungs or Asth- 1 ma, should nse Pleo’s Cure for H Consumption. It has eared B thoasaads. It has not Injur- H ed one. It ts not bad to take. B It U the beet cough syrup. H Sold everywhere. *&c. ' ■

WILD RUSH FOR LAND.

CHEROKEE STRIP BESIEGED BY THOUSANDS. Unrivalled Scenes Before the Opening— Lines of Applicants Numbering Thousands—Characteristics of Their Future Home—Fair as the Garden of the Lord. Any Way to Get There. Talk about “rushes” for free land! The scenes just enacted at the opening of the Cherokee Strip surpassed anything of the kind ever known. For a week a constantly growing crowd surged about the registration booths; for no one could secure land without having first registered. Men, women and children, to the number of 20,000 or 25,000, formed in lines and remained there day and night; many were overcome by the heat and dust; some died from exhaustion. Anything eatable commanded World’s Fair prices, and water was 10 cents per cup. Still the mass of humanity waited and grew, restrained from premature encroachment by United States marshals and cordons of soldiers. There were half a dozen places for registration along the northern boundary of the Strip, and the scene at one was but a duplicate of the others. . When the last moment arrived, and the word “Go” was given, with a yell that tore a hole in the heavens the crowd started. Some on horseback, some afoot, some with wheelbarrows loaded with goods, some on bicycles, and thousands in the picturesque prairie schooners. Flowing; with Milk and Honey. Comparatively little is known of the Cherokee Strip or “Outlet” by the average American, despite the fact that it lies almost in the very midst of the nation, at the thresholds of five great States of the Union —Missouri Kansas, Arkansas, Colorado, and Texas, And yet it is pronounced by experienced judges to be the finest body of land of its size on the whole American continent, vith soil of surpassing richness and

depth, mineral resources of great value and inexhaustible quantity, natural scenery that is unrivaled, and a climate of delicious mildness and salubrity. The temperature there in winter varies from 35 to 48 degrees, ’and in summer from 77 to 82. All the extravagant things that have been written in rapturous praise of Oklahoma are said to be more than true of the Cherokee Strip, for it is regarded as equal in its entirety to the very choicest portions of Oklahoma, while its best lands are said to be veritable garden spots. The strip is 200 miles long and 56 miles wide. It lies between the 96th and 100th parallels of west longitude, with the southern border line of Kansas as its northern boundary and the Creek country and the Territory of Oklahoma as its southern. Topographically it is rolling, broken by hills and uplands and interspersed with valleys and Eden-like bottoms. Its many water courses are skirted with fine timber, oak, walnut, cedar, ash, beech, and hickory. The soil of the bottom lands and prairies is soft and loamy, black as ink, and of marvelous fertility. Upon the ridges and divides the land is not so well adapted to agriculture, but as the forest growth is slight they furnish splendid grazing pastures for sheep and cattle, being profusely clothed with succulent “bunch grass. ” Owing to this self-cured “bunch grass” and to the mildness of the climate and the abundance of water, the hilly regions are claimed by old sheep-growers to afford the best sheep country in the world. Indian Neighbors. Prospective settlers in the strip may now prepare to get acquainted with the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws and other tribes or nations of Indians in the Territory, who, with the white homesteaders of Oklahoma, will be their nearest neighbors. They are as tribes exceedingly wealthy, and are now rapidly adopting American manners, customs, usages and garments. The Cherokees number about 20,000, the Choctaws 16,000, the Creeks 15,000 and the Cheyennes and Arapahoes 7,000, and all the other tribes 22,000, making altogether 80,000 Indians resident in the Indian Territory. The price to be paid the Cherokees by the government is $8,595,736. There being 8,144,682 acres of the land, the net price per acre is $1.05. Each settler on the new lands, before receiving a patent, is required to pay, beside fees, the sum of $2.50 per acre between parallels 96 and 97i, the sum of $1.50 per acre between 97$ and 98$, and the sum of $1 per acre between 98$ and 100, together with four per oent. from the date of entry until the final payment. Some of the Lands between parallels 96 and 97$ are worth SSO per

LAND OFFICE.

acre in the wild state. They are splendidly watered and within easy distance of several thriving towns in Kansas and Arkansas, and every foot of it is capable of cultivation.

PITIABLE SCENES.

Good Work of the Children’s Aid Society— Help It Along:. One of the most touching sights on the streets of Chicago is the too common one ot a poor woman with her little one in her arms, hungry, but unable to buy food, and without any prospect of work. The office of the Children’s Aid Society at room 510,167 Dearborn street, presented a few days ago, a much similar scene. A German woman carrying her little baby, applied for work. She could not speak a word of English, and while she sat waiting for an interpreter to come the tears rolled down her cheeks and fell on the baby’s little hands. No money, no work. It was the same story. During the month just passed thare wen more than fifty mothers

who were willing to go anywhere ii they could only find a home for themselves and their children. Many are able to cook excellently; some nave had homes of their own; all are anxious to provide against the winter soon to come and the suffering that otherwise must be their’s at that time. The Society is looking for families in the country needing domestics or second girls, and willing to take a woman with a child. High wages are not asked; only kindness and charity, in view of the needs of the servants, and a home, with its protection against the threatening winter.

Interesting Ceremony in the White House— Grover Makes a Close Guess. Baby Ruth’s sister was weighed the other day. Dr. Bryant held the scales, and lifted the precious weight, but he set it down at a sign from the President. who said: “Wait a minute. Let’s guess her weight.” ■ “Ten pounds,” said Mrs. Cleveland. “Eleven,” Mrs. Perrine said. Dr. Bryant looked at the youngster critically, and said: “Nine and a half.” “I should say,” Thurber remarked, \sith the air of a connoisseur, “I should say, well, now ” “Oh, guess, Thurber, ” the President interrupted. “It’s not a matter of life or death.” “Twenty pounds,” Thurber said, somewhat rattled, and he blushed like a girl who had just been kissed and caught at it. Then the President, who had insisted on having the last guess, put on his glasses and bent over the basket. With the*air of a man who hasn’t been catching and weighing bass all summer for nothing, he said: “That’s a nine-and-a-quarter pounder or there’s something wrong with the scales.” The Doctor then lifted'the basket once more. The indicator stopped short at the figure 8. “Good heavens!” the President exclaimed, in a frightened tone. “Only four pounds. Why, Doctor!" “It’s all right,” the Doctor said. “The basket got caught on my arm.”

MAP OF CHEROKEE STRIP.

He freed it and the indicator shot down to twenty with a thud. “Well, I’ll be ——the President began. Just then he saw that Baby Ruth had hold of the basket. “Go away from there, Ruth,” he said, gently pushing her off. The basket rose as he did so and settled at thirteen and a half. “Gee whillikens!” Thurber exclaimed, “that’s a bouncer —thirteen and a half. ” “Hold your horses, my boy,” the President observed, “you must allow for the basket. Let's see, four from thirteen and a half leaves nine and a half.” “Just my guess,” Dr. Bryant observed. “Yes,” the President replied, “but yOu haven’t allowed for her breakfast.

MRS. CLEVELAND AND THE BABY.

That weighs a quarter of a pound, so you see that I take the prize.” And with the proud step of a conqueror he strode from the room and went into his office to resume his work.

Rioting among striking English miners continues. There is a plague of wasps in many places in Europe. Four new cases of cholera have occurred in Berlin. The Robinson Pressed Glass Works, Zanesville, Ohio, resumed, employing 200 men. Mrs. Jane Wright, an employment agent of Kansas City, Mo., was found murdered in her office. Examination of the personnel of the new French Chamber does not justify a hope of tranquillity. In a saloon fight at St. Louis Patrick Cummings stabbed Charles Bohn to death and made his escape. Emma Goldman, the notorious anarchist now in jail in New York, is either insane or is feigning. Fire in a dwelling at Cincinnati resulted in the injury of a number of people in their efforts to escape. Officials of the Ward Steamship Line have violated the law in the landing of Chinamen at New York.

Fifteen hundred Spanish cigarmakers in New York struck on account of a reduction of $2 per thousand. The Amalgamated Association at Pittsburg has agreed to 10 per cent, reduction in wire rod wage scale. Liberia has asked the assistance of the United States in preventing French encroachment on Liberian territory. After escaping three times, C. O. Kellar, the alleged Chattanooga forger, was finally locked in jail at Sacramento, Cal. It has been discovered that the Indianapolis judge in the Iron Hall case allowed Receiver Failey SIO,OOO for his services. Armed police and troops continue to parade the English colliery districts. Terrorism and highway robberies are frequent.

The Church o' the Assumption at Canton, Minn., is again open. Pilgrimages to see the apparition of the Virgin are expected. Prince Bismarck is suffering from exposure. He persists in receiving deputations out of doors and thereby contracted a cold. There will be no strike among the spinners at Fall River, Mass., or at New Bedford, the reduction- of wages having been accepted. Will Sullivan, the son of Freeman Sullivan, of the Woodridge stove works, was shot and killed at Memphis bv Dan Doherty, the watchman of the Memphis Brink Company.

BABY ON THE SCALES.

How the World Wags.

RECOVERED THE BOOTY.

Short Work Msde of the Meoaba Banc* Robbers. The whole of the $70,000 taken by the Mesaba Range, Mich., train robbers has been recovered. When the robbers had secured their booty they were smart enough to know that it was imjxissible successfully to secrete the gold anywhere on the Keweenaw Peninsula. It was equally dangerous to keep it on their persons. One of the gang went to Houghton, dressed as a miner, and for a consideration of 50 cents, it is said, induced a baggageman to check his trunk through. It is not known that the baggageman was aware of the contents of the trunk, but a special train soon followed with officers, and the booty was overtaken on the road quite a distance from Houghton. Liberty, a fireman on the Duluth Road, was arrested on suspicion of being a party to the conspiracy. He made every effort to get away, but without avail. Another fireman on the road is also in custody. The other men now under arrest for the daring train robbery are John King, the Cornish wrestler; Jack Chellew, said to be the keeper of a disreputable place in Ishpeming; John Kehoe, a Red Jacket saloon-keeper; John Quinlan, and a stranger named Butler from Marquette. A strong clow is that some women saw a horse tied near tho scone of the robbery that tallied with the description of a hor6e hired by King earlier in the day. In addition, Chellew, King, and Kehoe left Hancock early in the morning and returned to town from the direction of tho robbory shortly after it was committed. The robbery was ono of the slickest jobs in the annals of criminal history. The robbers knew that $30,000 furnished by tho Superior Savings Bank, of Hancock, and $40,000 furnished by tho First National Bank, of Houghton, was on the express ear, designed for the payment of Calumet and Hecla miners. If they had been still wiser they could have obtained $40,000 more;; which a messenger from the First! National at Hancock, carried in a hand-sachel. Boston is about five miles south of Calumet. It is a fiag station. When the engineer, Nick Schuler, saw a man vigorously signaling from the depot platform, ho stopped the train as a matter of course Scarcely had he done so when the supposed agent went inside, donned a mask and in a jiffy jumped into the cab, drawing his revolver and firing a shot in the air. Then he told the engineer to stand aside. He would run the “d d machine.”

The fireman, thinking an escaped lunatic was on board, ran along the Bide of the lccomotive, but throe shots In uncomfortable proximity to his head led him to stop in his mad career and return to the cab. All this time Messenger D. W. Hogan sat in the express car making out bills. The door was suddenly broken dow ( n by a sledge, falling with a crash, and when the startled man found himself looking into the barrels of an ugly bulldog rovolvor he didn’t stop to argue. His hands soon pointed heavenward, while a man extracted his revolver from a pocket and told him to produce his key. Hogan made a feint. This didn’t go. The key was produced instanter, and the robbors departed with the swag. Meanwhile tho baggageman, who sat in another part of the car, was disconsolately studying the barrels of another gun. Two shots were fired by tho robbers when they left the car. This was a signal to start the train again. The highwayman with the boodle waved his hands derisively at the'now frightened passengers as the train moved away. So little time was taken up with tho work that the train was but five minutes late when it reached Calumet. The robbers threw away their masks and also the express messenger's revolver. These were afterwards found. The men probably were anxious to leave nothing on their persons to incriminate them. It now transpires that 'the robbers had prepared to derail the train, but hadn’t time to complete tho job or were disturbed.

Telegraphic Clicks.

The Loh igh Company passed its dividend. A destructive hail-storm visited the vicinity of Ada, Minn. The United States warship Yankton has arrived at Valparaiso, Chili. McClure, the train robber, escaped from the Nebraska penitentiary. Father J. .T. Connolly, of St. Louis, has been made Vicar General of that diccese. Contractor L. M. Loss fell down the hatchway of a scow at Alton, 111., and was killed. The New York Casino Theater has been leased by Canary & Lederer for $38,000 a year. The Western Union Telegraph Company has declared a quarterly dividend of It per cent. David J. Mackey has been elected president of the Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad. The Ceylon Planters’ Tea Company failed at New York. . The company has $1,000,000 capital. Robbers pillaged the village of Dali ton, Ohio, and one of the gang assaulted a young woman. ■ 4 Schweinfurth, who calls himself the modern Christ, has started a milk route at Rockford, 111.

George La Liberte, a fireman, has been arrested as one of the robbers of the Mineral Range train. Gold to the amount of £1,500,000 (about $7,500,0X1) is now on the way fio.n Australia to London. Emperor William desires to have Alsace-Lorraine incorporated in the Grand Duchy of Baden, it is said. Fears are felt for the safety of the Valkyrie. The English yacht left Queenstown for America Aug. 23. Albert Mason, of Columbus, 0., city meat inspector, was thrown from his buggy by a runaway and killed. Kennett Blake shot aud killed William Rewley at Portsmouth, Ohio. He declared he was glad he did it and fled. As a result of an old feud at Benton, Ala., James Miller shot and killed E. E. Curtis. Both were prominent merchants.

During a drunken quarrel among some printers at Pittsburg William Cunningham, 40 years old, was fatally kicked. Collector J. W. Reickley of the Indianapolis Gas Company has absconded, taking a large amount of the concern's cash. A boat from the sealing schooner Arctic wa? lost in Behring sea and Rig men perished. The Walter L. Rich lest a boat and three men. Thousands are pouring into Guens to see the maneuvers of the AustroHungarian army. Emperor Franz Josef is already there. Samuel Lamb, ex-Sheriff of the Indiana Supreme Court, and for several years in the United States detective service, dropped dead at, Richmond, Ind.

RAIN ALONE CAN SAVE.

WISCONSIN FIRES SWtfEP NORTH. WARD WITH DIRE EFFECTS . t Ashland and the Surrounding Towns Mow Besieged—Settlers Flocking In from All Directions, Fleeing for Their Dives—High Winds Fan the Flames. New Danger Centers Pray for rain is the hopeless cry throughout Northern Wisconsin as the forest flames continue to devour everything before them. Settlors are coming into Ashland from all directions, running for their lives. At noon Sunday the people were called from worship by fire alarms. The cinders and smoko became almost blinding all over the city. Over 1,000 volunteers were added to the fire department ta fight the flames, which rushed in on the city from the Odanah Indian Reservation. At 3 o’clock there was a wild cry of despair among the peoplo living near the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railroad shops. The waterworks

WISCONSIN’S FIRE-SWEPT COUNTIES.

had given out and thero was no watei’. Tho chemical engines wore brought, but it was useless to try to stop the flames, as a high gale of wind was blowing. Thero are but a vory few wells in tho city. The coal shops caught lire and tho plucky engineers soon had the thirty dead locomotives firod up and running all rolling stock to tho lake front. Household goods have beon burned, and over 100 familios are already homeless. Tho sight was almost oDseured by the heavy clouds of smoke and cindors. Twenty men wore overcome in fighting tho flames and taken to the hospital. Tho timber and vegotation is like straw. No rain has fallon since July 10. Three familios near Marengo have perishod. There was no help to go to them. At Parishville the large iron plant burned. A, large number of women and children who had rushed to the lake front wore only saved by a desperate effort with patrol w r agons. The fire is tho same that lias been raging further south all weok. Settlers arriving have pitiful stories to toll and are being cared for by |hoso who still have houses. Ope man named Egstrom was driven by the loss of his wife and family ot two children. His hair and eyelashes and clothes wero burned from his body when discovered.

Covers Two Hundred Square Miles. As near as can be estimated the fire now covers 200 square ruiles and is sweeping north. The damage to standing pine will be Very heavy and approximates not less than $5,000,000. A woman and baby, supposed to .fep tho wife of a settler, were picked up in an insonsible condition near White River road. The child died soon after arriving. The mother is in a delirium, and it is' supposed that her husband perished in the Odanah Reservation. Indians are camping on a raft in Bad River and are hemmed iti .with an archway of flames. All communication with Ashland was cut off lisovn, surrounding small towns. It Is impossible to give details of holocausts and losses, but if rain does not soon come the death list will run up into the hundreds.

Fierce fires are raging between Iron River and Superior, and a great deal of damage to timber, railroad property and the property of homesteaders has been done. The trains on the Northern Pacific and Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railways wore preceded by hand cars loaded with section men to repair the tracks for the trains to pass. Several bridges along the Northern Pacific have Deen destroyed and homesteaders in many cases have been entirely burned out. For several days West Superior has been enveloped in dense smoke from numerous forest fires south of there, but no danger was until the fives approached the city, forced-on by j a Strong wind. The fire departments I wore called out and the flames were fought off before they reached any of the buildings on the outskirts of the town. At Merrill the wind turned completely around, stopping the progress of the forest fire in that vicinity. The work of caring for .destitute farmers has begun iq oarnest. Citizens are responding liberally, and the immediate wants of the people are looked after. l 's Milwaukee has‘been enveloped in smoke from the forest fires. About the towns within the burning district citizens are fighting the fires day and night to prevent the flames from reaching within the limits. The fires appear to be the worst along the lino of the Wisconsin Central Railway. Through Wisconsin Central trains between Chicago and Minneapolis are running over the Omaha Road between Eau Claire and Marshfield on account of the burning of a bridge. The forest fires which are causing such widespread destruction through Wisconsin and the upper end of the Lower Michigan Peninsula have covered the lake with a thick pall of smoke and navigation has become decidedly dangerous. A half dozen wrecks have occurred the last few days, and the captains of incoming boats report that the smoke is becoming steadily worse.

Currencies Condensed.

' Benert M alon, the Socialist author, died in Paris. Julius Bernstein, a Now York importer, has failed. Fire at Shell City, Nev., destroyed a number of buildings. The Cleveland lumber firm of Cartwright & Co. failed for SIOO,OOO. Sylvia Gerrish, the comic opera actress, is critically ill in New York. Officers of the cruiser Chicago were handsomely entertained at Havre, France.

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“Marso Hugh" Came Back to Stay. Just across the dusty country road, opposite the station, was the ohina tree. It stood in the corner of the zigzag fence; its brown limbs were bare save for the jgreat clusters of pale gold berries which they held,aloft against the blue sky. Three robbins, already half intoxicated by the delicious food, were feasting on the berries. The, tree, as If by some sudden caprice, had tossed down all at once its yellow leaves; the brown earth weloomed them and there they lay shining in the sunlight. She stood beneath the tree, gowned in gray, coarse gray, home spun, home dyed; the large hat shading her faoe was made of shucks, plaited by her long, tapering fingers, which had been wont to wander over the strings of her guitar while Hugh’s lips whispered love’s sweet words. Soft hair, a complexion like the petals of a magnolia, a face whose every feature told of birth of blood, she stood, a fine fibred aristocrat in the rough garb of a plebeian. Down the railroad she strained her eager eyos, shading them with one amall, white hand, while the other, tight clasped, held the letter with the precious words, “I shall be with you on Monday. ” On tho other side of the low fence, amid the sassafras bushes, Mammy Dilly, black, fat and jolly, rested her arms on the top rail. ’’Dey be here pros’ney, honey; I mighty anxious to see my boy and Marso Hugh. I know Isham como es Marse Hugh come; doy-11 git cm a furlough togodder, dey’s so oonstan’. Dar de train now!" It camo nearer. It stopped. Isham stepped out of tho baggage oar, wearing an old army cap and a gray jacket with red trimmings. "Howdy, Isham! howdy! War Marse Hugh?” “My Gord, mammy. Is dat you? Is dat Miss Marg’et yauder! Oh, mammy, teok Miss Marg’et back to de house.” “You fool, boy! How I gwine teok Miss Marg’et baok to de house when Marse Hugh cornin’home?’*'' 1 muibii'w Men were lowering something ’from the baggago oar; Isham saw it through a rain of sudden tears, and taking off his cap said with bowed head: “Mars Hugh—done done come home to Stay, mammy wid a bullot in his breas’.”

Indian Prayer Machines.

In the hill country of India and Thibet tho inhabitants pray by means of machines. A strip of papor or parchment, containing a prayer many times repeated, is wound round a cylinder about tho size of a boy’s top. A string is fastened to this and attached to the other end is a stick by whioh the cylinder is whirled. Every turn is supposed to indicate thoir petition of the’ prayer as many times as it is written on the paper. In some of the temples the prayer cylinders aro of enormous size, and a fee is paid for being permitted to turn them. In various places water and wind are used as the propelling power, and the suppliant goes In and pays for so many revolutions, receiving credit in an acoount book and being notified tvhon his prayers have been offerod. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.—Bulwor.

Hood’s^Cures "A few years ago my / health failed me. After / \ \ muoh persuasion I ooras» \menoed to take Hood's to|k< J <£*l Sarsaparilla, and am \ a Mirth’ '{rtiljitotiii From 111 niu down oondltlon I have been restored "'•'X MMMW to Rood health. FortnerMr. G. W. Twist. ,ly I weighed I*B pounds, now ITS. Hood's Sarsaparilla baa beep a great benefit to me.” Gboros W, Twist. Oolorna, Wta. N. B. Be sure to got Hood's. ■ 1 j. Hood's Pills Cure all Liver Ills. Mo. Brings comfort and improvement tad tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who live bet> ter than others and enjoy life more, with lees expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world’s best products to the'needa of physical beipg, will-attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in the remedy, Syrup of Figs. Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most, acceptable and pleasant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect laxative; effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers ana permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kidneys, Liver and without weakening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substaack; vj Syrup of Figs is for sale by all gists in 50c ana (1 bottles, but it is manufactured by the California Fig Syrnp Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, von will not accept any substitute if offered.

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The Derivation of Words.

It is amusing, as well as instructive, to study tho derivation of words. The Two Republics, published in the City of Mexioo, contains the following: “The following explanation of the origin of the word ‘gringo’ (which it is perhaps unnecessary to also explain is Moxican for foreigner) has at least the merit of ingenuity. Sundry English vessels, it is said, did a long time ago oast anchor off Mazatlan, and Jack, as is his time-honored custom, took an early opportunity of going ashore and getting drunk. Sevoral of him were parading the streets and singing, and the song among others that particularly caught the Moxican ear was that old friend of Englishmen, commencing ‘Green grow the rushes, oh!’ After that, whenever Jack hove in sight, it was customary to remark, ‘Aquivienen los groen-grows,’and ‘green-grow’very soon got to he written and pronounced gringo, and has stuck to tho foreigner ever Binoe. ’’ The Mexicans to this day call a large American horse a caballo golon, because during the Moxican war they heard the American teamsters, as they touched up their teams say “go ’long. Owing to the habitual use of profanity on the part of Texas cowboys, the Mexicans call an American oowboy un goddammy. It is amusing to note that in one of nor officials tho famous Maid of Orleans applies the same term to the English soldiers of her day. In a letter to the King of France she predicts suooess no many goddammios aro brought against her.

An International Pass.

Roland’s Breach, the natural mountain pass loading from France into Spain through tne Pyrenees, is 200 feet broad, 31)0 feet high and 50 feet long. Biok Headache, lassitude, weakness and less of appetite, caused by malaria, can be immediately cured by Beechum’s Pills. GO WHERE he will tho wise man is at home, his hearth the earth— his hall the azure domo.—Emerson.

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